by A.R. Hammond
6 chapters19,446 words
Seventy-two hours. That is all the time remaining on the clock when a routine witness relocation in the isolated, snow-choked county of Krasnograd shatters. Bodyguard Viktor Volkov, a man whose tactical brilliance is matched only by his absolute pragmatism…
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by N.G. Foster
6 chapters20,116 words
Twice a day, the tide recedes to reveal the drowned ruins of a lost empire. Below the waterline sit glass bottles filled with captive storms, fog banks, and sheer heat, waiting to be claimed. Scavenging them is a race against the incoming sea…
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6 chapters16,421 words
When a blood-debt goes unpaid, the creditors do not want silver. They want collateral. For the thief known as Qadir, whose strict code of stealing only to restore what was taken has left him penniless but alive, being traded to settle another man's ledger is…
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6 chapters18,386 words
In the rigid, sun-bleached stronghold of Kyzyl-Kala, survival depends on blind obedience to the Blood Tithe—a mandate mathematically fair on paper, but monstrous in practice, claiming the innocent for the state's cruelest machines. Asena-tay is the city's…
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by Ezra Iverson
6 chapters19,685 words13 views
Alvaro Salgado is the stubborn, fiercely loyal fixer for his family’s struggling trade house on the borderlands. It’s a bad day when negotiations go south; it’s a worse day when getting out of a bad deal means binding his life to an unread contract with…
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by Ezra Iverson
6 chapters19,787 words
The Architect’s Path isn’t built on spells—it’s built on logic, alloy, and leverage. Kusiqa was expelled from the Imperial Academy for failing theory while his hands could reshape truth. Now, marked by a bloodline that powers the system from within, he finds…
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6 chapters20,697 words5 views
A low-ranking sect archivist discovers that the foundational technique binding their martial order together is inherently flawed and slowly killing its practitioners. Armed only with a mastery of the sect's arcane bureaucracy and procedural law, he sets out…
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